Indian detective movies

List of the best Indian detective movies selected by visitors to our site: Jai Bhim, Knock Out, Badla, Vikram, Gaslight, Runway 34, Arrambam, Shanghai, Kahaani, Jagga Jasoos.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryIndia

A pregnant woman from a primitive tribal community, searches desperately for her husband, who is missing from police custody. So as to find her husband and seek justice for them, as their voice, a High Court advocate rises in support. Will their battle for justice succeed?

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia

A businessman in a phone-booth is held hostage by a sniper.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryIndia

A dynamic young entrepreneur finds herself locked in a hotel room with the corpse of her dead lover. She hires a prestigious lawyer to defend her and they work together to figure out what actually happened.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genreaction, thriller, detective
CountryIndia

Amar is assigned to investigate a case of serial killings. When Amar investigates the case, he realizes it is not what it seems to be and following down this path will lead to nothing but war between everyone involved.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
CountryIndia

Meesha, a young paraplegic woman confined to a wheelchair, returns to her family’s royal estate after 15 years at the behest of her estranged father, only to learn that he’s mysteriously missing and probably dead.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryIndia

A flying prodigy, Captain Vikrant Khanna's flight takes a stirring and mysterious trajectory after take-off from an international destination. Concurrently, it follows the tenacious Narayan Vedant in his pursuit to uncover the truth.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
CountryIndia

The film's plot is set in the backdrop of 26/11 serial blasts in Mumbai, and revolves around Ashok Kumar (Ajith), who is on a mission to expose a scam regarding faulty bullet proof jackets that are provided to security forces, which resulted in many bloody deaths including his best friend and colleague, Assistant Commissioner Sanjay (Rana).

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration01:53

Prime leader of a campaign against a big government project is killed in what appears to be a road accident. An IAS officer is ordered to probe the incident and the veils of falsehood begin to drop.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:02

Vidya Bagchi (Vidya Balan) arrives in Kolkata from London to find her missing husband Arnab Bagchi. Seven months pregnant and alone in a festive city, she begins a relentless search for her husband. With nothing to rely on except fragments from her memories about him, all clues seem to reach a dead end when everyone tries to convince Vidya that her husband does not exist. She slowly realises that nothing is what it seems. In a city soaked in lies, Vidya is determined to unravel the truth about her husband - for herself and her unborn child - even at the cost of her own life.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, comedy, musical, adventure, detective
CountryIndia

A gifted teenage detective searches for his missing father with his ladylove assistant.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:15

A much abused loner achieves success, and even wins the heart of his gorgeous co-worker, after getting early morning mysterious phone calls from someone.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryIndia

If you're not safe at home, and you're not safe outside, what do you do? Where do you go? Is it possible to face your fears? Find out in the spookiest psychological thriller of the year, Phobia, starring Radhika Apte.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, detective
CountryIndia

When Paaru sees a fairy tale she heard from from a stranger as a child painted across the walls of a costal town, she goes in search of the man who painted it - Maara.

Markimdb: 3.2
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryIndia

A love triangle revolving around the lives of a filmmaker, a thief and their mutual love interest.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration01:00

A simple, street-smart man tries to protect his family from a tough cop looking for his missing son.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration01:03

In war torn Calcutta during the 1940's, Byomkesh Bakshy, fresh out of college, pits himself against an evil genius who is out to destroy the world.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:08

'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But there's a mysterious, dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryIndia

Under investigation as a suspect in her husband's murder, a wife reveals details of their thorny marriage that seem to only further blur the truth.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration01:43

An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryIndia

A gifted make-up artist gets entangled up in a world of crime with a psychopathic vigilante.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryIndia

An emotionally unstable murder suspect explains the modus operandi behind the crimes he had committed to a few cops which helps in unfolding some intriguing revelation.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:04

This story revolves around a famous poet who meets a woman who is in trouble. In order to treat her, he takes her to Shimla in a big hospital, but soon that woman gets possessed by devil and goes out of control. Now the question remains that what is the relation that poet shares with her which compelled him to go to any extent to save her, why she was possessed by devil and who is the devil.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
CountryIndia

Krishnan, who has been living away from his family and friends in Mumbai, gets a call from his friend Ganga in Kerala, out of the blue. He senses danger, and leaves for Kammattipadam, where both of them grew up.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, detective
CountryIndia

A filmmaker stands trial when a costume assistant on his movie accuses him of rape

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:23

A grandfather, police officer and a priest join hands to investigate and find a missing child.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
CountryIndia

Amar, Meet and Prem go into a small town where they encounter a 'femme fatale' in the form of Ragini. Ragini is everything they had dreamed of, but she slowly turns into their worst nightmare!

Markimdb: 7.9
Genreaction, comedy, adventure, western, detective
CountryIndia

In the pursuit of solving an ancient mystery of Amaravati, Narayana, a corrupt cop must battle the dangerous clan of dacoits and it's fierce leader.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryIndia

The story follows two Bangalore cops as they investigate an old case. Anant Nag plays Muthanna, a retired inspector while Rishi is Shyam, a sub-inspector working in the Traffic Police. Their search leads them across trails that will put their wit, resolve and morals to the test.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, detective
CountryIndia

A fun ride to the 80s where a detective solves the mystery of serial police station robbery.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, detective
CountryIndia

A dark rainy night, an empty house, a stranded couple and an unknown man. A sleek game of the cat and the mouse starts playing on, as the three of them find a dead body in the basement.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia

When a voyeuristic divorcee fixates on the lives of a perfect couple a far, she soon gets embroiled in a murder mystery that unfolds revealing truths about her own life.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredetective, history
CountryIndia

Gumnaami is a film based on the Mukherjee Commission Hearings which happened from 1999 to 2005 where the three theories about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death were discussed and debated. It is a dramatization of the hearings where an investigative journalist supporting the Gumnaami Baba theory locks horns with the official lawyer who supports the plane crash theory. In their clash, the Death in Russia theory also comes up.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryIndia

Manohar, an upwardly mobile middle class Indian moves into a new apartment -13B on the 13th floor with his family. From the first day in their new home, the women are hooked on to a new TV show 'Sab Khairiyat'. The show is about a family eerily similar to theirs who have also just moved into a new house. As the TV show unfolds, all the incidents that happen in the show start happening to them.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryIndia

Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryIndia

The culprits behind multiple deaths in a family over a few years are exposed, but there is more to it than meets the eye.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:04

A hot-shot fashion and wildlife photographer Vikram gets into a relationship with Nisha. She moves in with him in his palatial house outside of the city. The old world house, made decades ago is as beautiful as it is scary. It holds many secrets which Nisha is soon to unearth; of the life of the man who made it and of Vikram, who is dealing with the mysterious disappearance of his former girlfriend Roshni

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryIndia

A psychologist with a keen interest in criminology gets entangled in a tough serial killer case which the police find hard to crack.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryIndia

As a blind librarian, dispirited cricketer and desolate psychiatrist each seek retribution and release, their lives overlap under eerie influences.

Markimdb: 8
Genreaction, thriller, detective
CountryIndia

Neenu leads a selfless life helping others in need without expecting anything in return. In the meantime, the police and an underworld don are on the lookout for him over a multi-crore property.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryIndia

Detective Kaniyan Poonkundran is hungry for a challenging case to investigate and the mystery of a murdered dog leads to a rival who could be the match for him.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryIndia

Dwitiyo Purush is a sequel of Baishe Srabon were Prosenjit Chatterjee dies at the end. In this film we will see Parambrata chattopadhyay as a police inspector who follows the path that Prasenjit Chatterjee showed him in Baishe Srabon to fight with criminals in various regions of kolkata.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:17

Susanna is hungry for love and will go to any extent to find it in its purest form. In her quest for the perfect man, she gets married a number of times as each of her husband's die mysteriously.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia

A retired police commissioner recounts the most memorable case of his career, wherein he was informed about a bomb scare in Mumbai.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryIndia

A hooded vigilante is broadcasting murders on a news channel. Will the police catch him alive before he live-casts another death?

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryIndia

An urban couple Ranjan Mathew and Priya have just moved to Kochi when powers of the supernatural start to take over their lives. How they tide over the forces forms the story.​

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, detective
CountryIndia

Seattle PD is investigating the murder of a man and Sakshi, a deaf and mute artist, and her husband Antony, a renowned cello player, are related to it.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryIndia

Vettri joins a detective agency and is assigned a series of subjects to observe. He falls in love with Madhusree, one of his targets, and just when everything seems to be going fine, Vettri's subjects start dying mysteriously. Can he save Madhu before it is too late?

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:19

A cop, investigating the mysterious death of a filmstar, meets a sex-worker, while he faces some personal problems psychologically. The mystery connects these people in a way, that ultimately changes their lives.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrethriller, detective
CountryIndia

Coming from the streets of Paharganj, the movie depicts a woman's search for her lost love, a man's attempt to regain his lost enigma and dealing with his brother's untimely death, an unexpected political murder, and raging gang war.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantasy, drama, detective
CountryIndia

A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.




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